OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 23 shown for “No. 52” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:54 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Reliquary Shrine, by Jean de Touyl

Reliquary Shrine

Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
Agropyron fragile (Roth) Candargy

Agropyron fragile (Roth) Candargy

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1948 to 9 Jul 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel, by Norman de Garis Davies

East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel

Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1910; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana sp.

Valeriana sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of candlestands

Pair of candlestands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Lonicera quinquelocularis Hardw.

Lonicera quinquelocularis Hardw.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Public domainThe Met
Sorbus cashmiriana Hedl.

Sorbus cashmiriana Hedl.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Melica jacquemontii Decne.

Melica jacquemontii Decne.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Amenemhab

Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Amenemhab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Campanula sp.

Campanula sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temptation, by Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

The Temptation

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedwig) Dix.

Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedwig) Dix.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse bit

Horse bit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedwig) Dix.

Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedwig) Dix.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amun Mentuemhat

Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amun Mentuemhat

Artist not stated in the record · 690–645 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elsholtzia splendens Nakai ex F. Maek.

Elsholtzia splendens Nakai ex F. Maek.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian

Artist not stated in the record · 521

Public domainThe Met
Syringa emodi Wall. ex Royle

Syringa emodi Wall. ex Royle

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Verbascum thapsus L.

Verbascum thapsus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze shield boss

Bronze shield boss

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scrophularia koelzii Pennell

Scrophularia koelzii Pennell

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 6405 matched · 24 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 225057 matched · 40 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:54 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.